Which log do you like better. I could do ether but I personally prefer the spreadsheet.
PS observing logs will no longer be posted on this page. Look for the sky logs page too see what I saw!
ALL PICTURES WITH OUT IP LOG CAPTIONS ARE IN IP LOG XLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taken on Mar 25 at 9 pm (all Moon pics)
Took pic through my 30 mm Zhum with my 8 in Dob with my dads Sony cybershot. It was an was an automatic exposer time. Uploaded to Gimp and adjusted light curves.
Took it with my dads Sony cybershot with an automatic exposer time. Put it into gimp and adjusted brightness/contrast Moon and Jupiter conjunction
Took through my Nagler 7mm with my dad's Sony cybershot
with my 8 inch dob. It was an automatic exposer. I uploaded to GIMP and adjusted brightness/contrast.
Took through my Nagler 7mm with my dad's Sony cybershot
with my 8 inch dob. It was an automatic exposer. I uploaded to GIMP and adjusted brightness/contrast.
Jupiter
one of each
R .01 sec
G .001 sec
B .003 sec
4:52 UT January 26 2006
Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD
.014 sec exposer time. Stacked RGB images with Salsa. Adjusted brightness and contrast
Unsharped masked with GIMP and adjusted light curve too favor red. Cropped and zoomed
Orion
R 12 sec
G 12 sec
B 12sec
L 12 sec
Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD
RGBL filters. Taken on 12/24/10 at 7:41 UT with a 36 sec exposer time. I cant take much credit for this because all I did was stack three RGB images using Salsa J. I was worried when I first got the pictures but once I played with brightness and contrast it came out well... you know.
M37
R 5 sec
G 5 sec
B 5 sec
L 5 sec
Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD
12-26-09 3:18 UT 25 sec exposure time Uploaded RGB to Salsa and color merged. Moved to GIMP and added L. Adjusted light curve and then brightness and contrast.
M51 THERE IS A SUPER NOVA IN THE SPIRAL ARM!!!!!!!
R 17 sec
G 17 sec
B 17 sec
L 19 sec
M51 RGBL Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC
Taken on 7/1/11 at 6:28 UT with 70 sec exposure time. Stacked RGB with Image J but couldn't align RGB planes (didn't have the plugin) so I stacked RGB with Salsa and aligned RGB planes. Moved to GIMP and added L and then adjusted brightness and contrast. Cropped out the bottom because of discoloration in one of the stacks. Adjusted the light curve and brightness and contrast.
Stacked RGB in Maxim and it looked great. Stacked in LRGB but the RGB looked better (LRGB was tinted green). Used a low pass FFT filter to make the stars "Shiny". I tried using a plethora of other filters but to no avail. I tried adding darks to improve the quality of the image but when I added them and (surprisingly) they did nothing.
Rho Oph
R 16 sec x 16
G 16 sec x 16
B 16 sec x 16
L 16 sec x 18
tot 256 sec
6-23-2011 7:22 UT Taken by Mrs. Herrold at Desert Peak Observatory with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC
Stacked the RGBL in Maxim. Removed bloom and adjusted light curve to bring out the nebulosity.
Moved to Gimp and painted some of the stars white because of discoloration.
M82
L 20x23
tot 460 sec
Taken on 1/1/10 at 11:18 UT Taken by Mrs. Herrold at Desert Peak Observatory with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC
Stacked L in Maxim. Adjusted the light cures to bring out the center. Adjusted threshold to darken the back ground and bring out the galaxy.
Moon (Crater Aristarcus)
760 frames digitized with with Pinnicale Studio.
Taken an HDR monitor with a Stellacam 3 with the "Big Blue" Meade 10 in SC at GPN at 9:00 on May 4.
Uploaded to Registax and stacked it. Adjusted brightness and contrast and wavelet to brighten it up. Moved it to GIMP and brightened the picture using curves. The crater was over exposed so I colored it in with a transparent airbursh. In order to remove noise I blurred it with the smudge and blur tools.
GBT
1 min exposure time
Taken of April 12th at 11:20
Taken with Mrs Herrolds SLR with color slide film with an ISO of 200 at NRAO
Lowered the brightness to counteract the picture being over exposed. Used the eyedropper tool to select red and used curves to accent the red on the telescope.
Sky trails
4 min exposure time
Taken on April 12th at 12:00
Taken with Mrs Herrold's SLR at NRAO with color slide film with an ISO of 200 in an unknown part of the sky. Used GIMP to darken the background by using curves.
M46
R 12x12 sec
G 12x12 sec
B 12x12 sec
L 12x12 sec
tot of 48 images
Taken on 11/27/2012 at 10:27 UT Taken by Mrs. Herrold at Desert Peak Observatory with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC. It was stacked in Maxim. Used low pass FFT filter to brighten the stars. Used color balence to add more red and green in the nebula. I had to raise the blue level too in order to cancel out the red and green in the background. I adjusted light curves to bring out the nebula.
Saturn
10,080 frames of digitized footage.
Taken on May 10 with an HDR monitor and a Stellacam 3 at around 10:00 at GPN.
It was stacked in Registax. I adjusted wavelets with Registax. Moved to GIMP and lowered the brightness and contrast to darken the background and bring out Saturn's rings. Adjusted curves to bring out Saturn as a whole.
NGC 474
R 6x1200 sec
G 6x 1200sec
B 9x1200sec
L 22x600sec
tot 10hr 40min
Taken on 9/9/2007 http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mischa/testdata.html Taken at La Palma with a 12.5" Newtonian, f/5.1, MAM50 and a ST-10XME camera.
The hardest thing to do with this picture was stacking it. Because of a supermassive bloom Maxim got confused and started rotating and doing odd things too the picture. I had to use the manual stack feature. I chose the 2 star stack feature because it is more accurate. Once I got it stacked I noticed thousands of blooms and one moster bloom. When I tried to remove the blooms it, like before, got confused and started deleting everything. Unable to remove the monster bloom (I even resorted to the paint brush) I crop the picture and created a close up image of the two galaxies. I moved the picture to GIMP and adjusted levels and brightness and contrast to bring out the nebulosity. I adjusted color levels too bring out more blue because the picture had and ugly hue of green.
Troll you later...
PS observing logs will no longer be posted on this page. Look for the sky logs page too see what I saw!
ALL PICTURES WITH OUT IP LOG CAPTIONS ARE IN IP LOG XLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taken on Mar 25 at 9 pm (all Moon pics)
Took pic through my 30 mm Zhum with my 8 in Dob with my dads Sony cybershot. It was an was an automatic exposer time. Uploaded to Gimp and adjusted light curves.
Took it with my dads Sony cybershot with an automatic exposer time. Put it into gimp and adjusted brightness/contrast Moon and Jupiter conjunction
Took through my Nagler 7mm with my dad's Sony cybershot
with my 8 inch dob. It was an automatic exposer. I uploaded to GIMP and adjusted brightness/contrast.
Took through my Nagler 7mm with my dad's Sony cybershot
with my 8 inch dob. It was an automatic exposer. I uploaded to GIMP and adjusted brightness/contrast.
Jupiter
one of each
R .01 sec
G .001 sec
B .003 sec
4:52 UT January 26 2006
Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD
.014 sec exposer time. Stacked RGB images with Salsa. Adjusted brightness and contrast
Unsharped masked with GIMP and adjusted light curve too favor red. Cropped and zoomed
Orion
R 12 sec
G 12 sec
B 12sec
L 12 sec
Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD
RGBL filters. Taken on 12/24/10 at 7:41 UT with a 36 sec exposer time. I cant take much credit for this because all I did was stack three RGB images using Salsa J. I was worried when I first got the pictures but once I played with brightness and contrast it came out well... you know.
NGC 474
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mischa/testdata.html
10hr and 40min RGBL filters
07.-09.09.2007
12.5" Newtonian, f/5.1, MAM50, ST-10XME
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mischa/testdata.html
4 hr and 50min RGBL filters
12.5" Newtonian, f/5.1, MAM50, ST-10XME
07.-09.09.2007
Hubbles Variable
Through Mrs Herrold's Cass. 77 sec RGBL
M37
M37
R 5 sec
G 5 sec
B 5 sec
L 5 sec
Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD
12-26-09 3:18 UT 25 sec exposure time Uploaded RGB to Salsa and color merged. Moved to GIMP and added L. Adjusted light curve and then brightness and contrast.
M51
R 17 sec
G 17 sec
B 17 sec
L 19 sec
M51 RGBL
Taken by Mrs. Herrold with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC
Taken on 7/1/11 at 6:28 UT with 70 sec exposure time. Stacked RGB with Image J but couldn't align RGB planes (didn't have the plugin) so I stacked RGB with Salsa and aligned RGB planes. Moved to GIMP and added L and then adjusted brightness and contrast. Cropped out the bottom because of discoloration in one of the stacks. Adjusted the light curve and brightness and contrast.
NGC7331
R 6x600sec
G 6x600 sec
B 8x600 sec
tot 3.33 hours
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mischa/testdata.html
07.-09.09.2007
12.5" Newtonian, f/5.1, MAM50, ST-10XME
La Palma, Roque de los muchachos
Stacked RGB in Maxim and it looked great. Stacked in LRGB but the RGB looked better (LRGB was tinted green). Used a low pass FFT filter to make the stars "Shiny". I tried using a plethora of other filters but to no avail. I tried adding darks to improve the quality of the image but when I added them and (surprisingly) they did nothing.
Rho Oph
R 16 sec x 16
G 16 sec x 16
B 16 sec x 16
L 16 sec x 18
tot 256 sec
6-23-2011 7:22 UT
Taken by Mrs. Herrold at Desert Peak Observatory with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC
Stacked the RGBL in Maxim. Removed bloom and adjusted light curve to bring out the nebulosity.
Moved to Gimp and painted some of the stars white because of discoloration.
M82
L 20x23
tot 460 sec
Taken on 1/1/10 at 11:18 UT
Taken by Mrs. Herrold at Desert Peak Observatory with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC
Stacked L in Maxim. Adjusted the light cures to bring out the center. Adjusted threshold to darken the back ground and bring out the galaxy.
Moon (Crater Aristarcus)
760 frames digitized with with Pinnicale Studio.
Taken an HDR monitor with a Stellacam 3 with the "Big Blue" Meade 10 in SC at GPN at 9:00 on May 4.
Uploaded to Registax and stacked it. Adjusted brightness and contrast and wavelet to brighten it up. Moved it to GIMP and brightened the picture using curves. The crater was over exposed so I colored it in with a transparent airbursh. In order to remove noise I blurred it with the smudge and blur tools.
GBT
1 min exposure time
Taken of April 12th at 11:20
Taken with Mrs Herrolds SLR with color slide film with an ISO of 200 at NRAO
Lowered the brightness to counteract the picture being over exposed. Used the eyedropper tool to select red and used curves to accent the red on the telescope.
Sky trails
4 min exposure time
Taken on April 12th at 12:00
Taken with Mrs Herrold's SLR at NRAO with color slide film with an ISO of 200 in an unknown part of the sky. Used GIMP to darken the background by using curves.
M46
R 12x12 sec
G 12x12 sec
B 12x12 sec
L 12x12 sec
tot of 48 images
Taken on 11/27/2012 at 10:27 UT
Taken by Mrs. Herrold at Desert Peak Observatory with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CC. It was stacked in Maxim. Used low pass FFT filter to brighten the stars. Used color balence to add more red and green in the nebula. I had to raise the blue level too in order to cancel out the red and green in the background. I adjusted light curves to bring out the nebula.
Saturn
10,080 frames of digitized footage.
Taken on May 10 with an HDR monitor and a Stellacam 3 at around 10:00 at GPN.
It was stacked in Registax. I adjusted wavelets with Registax. Moved to GIMP and lowered the brightness and contrast to darken the background and bring out Saturn's rings. Adjusted curves to bring out Saturn as a whole.
NGC 474
R 6x1200 sec
G 6x 1200sec
B 9x1200sec
L 22x600sec
tot 10hr 40min
Taken on 9/9/2007
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mischa/testdata.html
Taken at La Palma with a 12.5" Newtonian, f/5.1, MAM50 and a ST-10XME camera.
The hardest thing to do with this picture was stacking it. Because of a supermassive bloom Maxim got confused and started rotating and doing odd things too the picture. I had to use the manual stack feature. I chose the 2 star stack feature because it is more accurate. Once I got it stacked I noticed thousands of blooms and one moster bloom. When I tried to remove the blooms it, like before, got confused and started deleting everything. Unable to remove the monster bloom (I even resorted to the paint brush) I crop the picture and created a close up image of the two galaxies. I moved the picture to GIMP and adjusted levels and brightness and contrast to bring out the nebulosity. I adjusted color levels too bring out more blue because the picture had and ugly hue of green.